Social network tips

wouldn’t be so popular if the administration of this site and its developers hadn’t listen to the complaints and offers from its numerous users. That is why we can see from time to time a bunch of new improvements and appearing of new features on Page. We can like or dislike these new improvements but the truth is that Facebook developers try to make this huge social network as protected from spammers, user-friendly and more integrated as it is possible. That is why at least try to be grateful for these attempts or appeal to the page with your request if you suppose that something on Facebook should be changed in future.

And again Facebook users have to face new improvements and changes happened with their profiles and Facebook Home Page in particular. About the new changes in details you can read further. The only thing we want to add that this time these alterations touched the core of this site – Facebook Home Page – where we can see appearing of more links leading to different options of Facebook which all of 500 millions of registered users apply from time to time.

Here are the descriptions of the main changes and improvements you will see when reach Facebook Home Page:

• the top of Facebook Home Page is occupied with a new bar of icons and buttons responding for requests, sending of messages and all notifications a user on Facebook can receive from his/her friends. These new icons are very convenient to use and they let you find out if someone has poked you or sent you a message even if you are not on your personal page because surfing on other FB pages. All these icons and buttons turn into red spots and in such way appeal to you to check your new messages or notifications. These icons have drop-down menus to display all items containing in their boxes at once.

• now let’s concentrate on the right part of this top menu on Facebook Home Page. Here you can find a number of links that can take you to the homepage or to your personal page, there is also a link leading to a new account menu which allows gaining access to all your settings, the Help Center of Facebook and other pages related to the home page.

• move on to the middle of this top part of FB Home Page. Users will be able to find here a search field bar (new and improved one with a number of new filters like searching for your friends on Facebook via their names, subjects or their hobbies and likings). For instance, if you type a name of your Facebook friend and you will get tons of results dealing with his/her account – latest posts, new photos and videos and all his/her recent stuff posted on Facebook. In a new way you can find some groups only by pointing out some popular keywords. For instance, type “Haiti natural disaster” and you will be offered the list of groups that are dedicated to this topic somehow.

• now let’s focus on the improved left side of the FB Home Page. Members of this social network find over there a bunch of links leading to their News Feed pages, Messages, Photo Albums, Videos and Friends’ Lists. All these links are followed by appearing pop-up boxes. For instance, after clicking on the Photos link you will see a pop-up box with all your photo albums. It is more convenient to use all these common options and features of Facebook.

As for the central part of FB home page, they left it pretty much the same and you won’t find any important changes in this part of Facebook main page.

It is not a secret that the main task of all existing social networks including such giants as , MySpace and Twitter is to entertain you in all possible ways – by giving you a chance to chat with your dearest friends and family members, allowing you to play popular and games and updating your Facebook status to make your Facebook page more personalized and interesting to view in such way.

Browse in Web a request “Funny Messages” and you will get tons of results because it is a sort of new or completion – call it as you wish – among Facebook users which consists in posting funny Facebook status messages and then compare and ask other users which of these status updates are the most hilarious and interesting to read.

If you also want to join this new social spreading as a plague among the following tips will help you to figure our how to make your own status updates one of these cool and funny Facebook status messages everybody likes.

Foremost, keep in mind that such funny Facebook status messages can increase the popularity of your page in many times, that is why they are worth of applying your creativity, sense of humor and imagination. Besides these cute and funny Facebook status messages and updates can show to other users your bright individuality and can cause interest to your personality.

At first let’s figure out what is a Facebook status message. As you know, being a Facebook user, every member of this huge online social community is an owner of a profile page he/she can edit by posting images, messages, videos and music and adding new applications, widgets and plug-ins. This page is a reflection of your personality which the other users see. That is why you should express yourself in a creative way by editing a Facebook status text area which is located in the top part of your account page. It usually begins with your name data and initially was made to show your location. For example you can edit it (click on the “Edit” link on the left side from your profile photo) and type over there “Steve is at school” and all users will understand that you are Steve and are at school at the moment.

However many users apply this area to express their interesting thoughts or funny Facebook status messages. This status message is open to everyone’s eyes even if your profile is private that is why try your best to make this message remarkable. Keep in mind while editing this status message of yours that you are limited by 160 characters limit (including spaces) but, trust us, this can be more than enough to leave a hilarious Facebook status message. Your Facebook status update will be shown during a week then you will have to renovate it or type a new one.

What phrases can you use as hilarious Facebook status messages? Well, there are no limits here, express yourself as you wish. However there are some tips that can help you to invent your own funny status messages. You may use some famous quotes and remarks taken from your favorite movies, TV shows or songs to describe your mood at the moment or you can insert some jokes into your status message. You can even steal someone’s hilarious status update message and post it as yours. It is up to you to decide what to type, just try to make this message really funny, simple and interesting.

All probably know that it is hard to find better web browser for surfing on this social network than Mozilla Firefox which can offer users a lot of additional plug-ins, toolbars to make their Facebook profiles more integrated and interactive by means of useful software for web browsing including helpful and customizing add-on called as Greasemonkey that can even make your more personalized and good-looking with the help of and not similar to other Facebook profiles.

Due to these reasons and also because of high level of security and can offer more and more users who have accounts on Facebook choose this web browser to unblock their Facebook pages at work or to surf anonymously using a number of cool plug-ins and add-ons.

Nevertheless there is a number of the so-called Facebook problems you can face if you use Firefox to browse on Facebook social networks. To avoid these Facebook problems or find the best solution to fix them you can read the following descriptions of the most common Facebook problems a Firefox user can face:

1) One of the most common Facebook problems among Firefox users is inability to load such applications as Farmville, Mafia Wars and similar to them. The problems deals with usage of Flash plug-in. The solution can be in renovation of the old version of your Flash plug-in by visiting the Adobe Flash Player website or improving settings of an installed plug-in. Check in settings if an option of allowing the third party content is turned on.

2) The next issue is also one of the most common Facebook problems and it deals with slow connection and work of Facebook chat if a member uses Mozilla Firefox. To solve this problem upgrade your version of Firefox at least up to Firefox 3.6. If it doesn’t help you should browse the FAQ section of the Facebook Help Center.

3) One of the most widespread Facebook problems concerns inability to load the main page of Facebook. To fix this problem try to do the following – check if Facebook is accessible from different web browsers (like Opera or Google Chrome). If it is not accessible from different browsers check your Internet connection. There can be two reasons explaining this problem – you don’t have an access to the Internet at all or Facebook site is temporarily not working which happens from time to time. If it is accessible but you still want to use it by means of Firefox web browser you can try to cope with this issue by sticking the following tips:

• Clear cookies and cache of your Firefox browser. To fulfill this browse the FAQ section on Firefox Official Website.

• Check if your antivirus software or firewalls let you gain access to Facebook via Firefox. This is a widespread reason why users can’t gain access to their Facebook pages. Select to allow access to your Facebook page if it is blocked by your firewall.

• Try to delete and install Mozilla Firefox to your PC again if you don’t know the reason of blocking your access to Facebook from this web browser.

4) Another popular Facebook problem is that one which redirects a user from certain Facebook applications by giving the info about the error with such text “Page isn’t redirecting properly”. Not all Facebook applications work as clock but you can appeal to Facebook Help Center if you intend to fix this problem.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are all the witnesses how social networks as , MySpace and Twitter influence on our real lives and even cause sensational crimes dealing with the harmless features and applications presented on these social sites. Many of had to deal with the lacks and drawbacks of their favorite site. In particular lots of them are pissed off because of such option on Facebook as poking which turned to be a very annoying and distracting thing especially if you have a lot of .

But no one seriously believed that such annoying but harmless feature can cause the real scandal –the Facebook poking arrest case – that would be spread in all mass communication media. Before telling you about one of the most scandalous crimes dealing with social networking more known as the Facebook poking arrest we should focus on what is poking on Facebook.

The headlines about the Facebook poking arrest would not appear in mass media in September 2009 and wouldn’t exist at all if Facebook didn’t provided this poking feature few years ago. To poke someone on Facebook means to send to your friend a poke – a sort of reminder – that will appear on his/her page as a sign of a pointing finger pointing to a username of a person who poked you. You can poke your friend too and again receive from him/her a poke. This process may last all day long especially if you have lots of friends on Facebook. Luckily, you don’t have to respond to all pokes and can ignore them and a person can’t send another poke to you if you didn’t send to him/her a poke back but these reminders still can be very distractive and annoying stuff. Initially poking was supposed to be a mean to say “Hi!” but right now it is a nightmare of Facebook. Everyone pokes everybody. The worst thing is that not only your friends can poke you but also total strangers. Imagine how many pokes you can get during a day. Surely, you can turn this option of getting pokes from strangers off but newbies who are not quite aware of how everything works on Facebook can become really pissed off in few days of constant poking.

Nevertheless, in spite of all these Facebook poking problems it is still hard to believe that such simple action as sending to your friend a poke could cause an arrest. To find out more about the famous Facebook poking arrest read further.

The scandal dealing with the Facebook poking arrest involves participation of two American women. The first one of them is Shannon Jackson who was arrested on September 25, 2009, in her own house in Hendersonville (Tennessee) because of accusation in violating a protection order. It was prohibited for her to interfere in a life of another woman featured in this case – Dana Hannah. The reasons that caused such protection order were not spread in mass media. The only thing is obvious – this protection order didn’t allow Shannon Jackson to have any personal contacts with Dana Hannah including the prohibition of the phone calling, communication and contacting with her in any way. After claiming by Hannah that Jackson poked her on Facebook and producing proofs of in a form of a printout of a poke send by Jackson this lady was arrested and was sentenced to 1 year in prison and a 2,500 USD fine.

This was the first crime dealing with Facebook poking which made us think about the possible consequences of violating the personal space of a user who doesn’t want to receive pokes from you.

If you are a frequent and surf on these resource at days and nights, at home and at work or at school then you need to know what are the best proxy sites for Facebook unblocking and anonymous surfing. But at first let’s figure out what can offer you in details.

for Facebook can give you opportunities to surf anonymously on your favorite social network and avoid annoying pop-ups and ads, spamming attacks and undesirable friends’ requests from total strangers.

How does any of proxy sites for Facebook work?

Any proxy site including specific proxies for Facebook stands for a free-running site allowing you to log in into it and use it to surf as anonym on Facebook without leaving traces of your virtual existence (it can mask your IP and doesn’t reflect your surfing in the history of your browser). There are lots of proxy sites for Facebook in Web but only the most popular and reliable can propose the following options:

• Fast and easy reaching of the Facebook home page and bypassing blocking filters if you are at school or at work;

• Can guarantee absence of any pop-up windows with advertisements;

• Gives you an opportunity to use the advanced features without any privacy agreements and other compromising stuff;

• And the best thing is that it will be hard to track you.

What are the main reasons people have to use proxy sites for Facebook?

Virtual community gives you a plenty of opportunities to entertain yourself and communicate with your friends as well as many risks dealing with breaking of your accounts and stealing some personal info or infecting your PC with malicious software and Facebook is not an exception from this rule. And if you use a proxy site to browse in Web you will be protected from most of these risks.

However the main reason why people use proxy sites for such web resources as Facebook is that they want to get an access to their personal profiles being at a work place or at school. Practically all schools and organizations in the USA installed on their corporate computer networks special firewalls and filtering software to block any attempt to visit Facebook by someone of staff members or students from public computers. Using any reliable proxy sites you can bypass these filters but in any case your actions will be considered as the violation of rules and may cause bad consequences for you, so be careful while using these proxies at work place or at college.

How to choose the best proxy sites for surfing on Facebook?

Take into consideration that Facebook is an enormous social network with more 500 millions of registered users and that is why you can find a lot of proxy sites offering their services at bypassing filters and hiding your IP address from everyone if you want to get an access to your Facebook page.

From the first sight such variety and quantity of proxies can seem as bliss but if you look closer you will see that most of these proxies are worthless and not reliable. To find what proxy sites are the best and really can offer you all the enumerated earlier options you should spend a lot of time by searching, trying and creating your own database of the best proxy sites allowing you to become an invisible surfer in Web.

Despite all interesting options and applications can offer its main purpose is still to make your communication as interesting and entertaining as it is possible. Many years ago Facebook was a small social network where college students could chat and keep in touch with their mates. Times change as well as Facebook but the Chat still occupies one of the leading positions among the most used .

To spice up their or chat conversations and make them more emotional and personal users apply the so-called Facebook emoticons or smileys which are similar to usual smileys you can use in instant messengers like ICQ or SKYPE. All Facebook emoticons are titled according to their shortcuts you can find in the Chat Box on this social network.

If you are a beginner on Facebook and still don’t get it how other users apply these Facebook emoticons and insert their codes while chatting, read further and you will learn how to do this.

At first let’s focus on a definition of Facebook emoticons codes. Usually a smiley or an emoticon is a cute picture of a face expressing different emotions like happiness, shyness, anger or boredom and many others. The official title to such images is “emoticons” but people still call them “smileys” because initially instant messengers could offer only few emoticons looking like yellow faces that smiled or frowned according to a user’s mood. And initially virtual smileys spring from 1970s when a smiling face was used as a logo of State Mutual Life Assurance of Worcester (MA, USA). Since those times and till nowadays people use this symbol to express their happiness or positive thoughts and when approve something. Right now, there exist few hundreds or even more of various emoticons expressing all human emotions and reflecting some life processes or popular characters and events.

Now you are quite aware what are Facebook emoticons and the short history of their appearance in the Facebook Chat. It is a high time to teach you how to use these emoticons in your chatting process so you could express your feeling with cute smiling faces or emphasize something important illustrating this by various emoticons.

First of all we should warn you that you can’t operate with all those smileys you have seen in ICQ or Microsoft Messenger (that have more than 200 variants of different emoticons) on Facebook and will have to use a limited amount of emoticons. Facebook developers work on this problem, but still there are for now only few dozens of smiley codes you can use to communicate and chat with your friends by means of the Facebook Chat.

Below you can find the examples of the most widespread Facebook emoticons and their smiley codes people insert in their chat conversations. By typing a consequent combination of letters and special signs you can get a certain emoticon eventually:

• Toothy Grin Face –

• Wink Face –

• Open Mouth Gasp – :-O

• Frowning Face –

• Face Sticking Tongue Out –

• Kissing Emoticon – :-*

• Angry Face-  >:-(

• Doubts –  :-\

• Crying Face- : -(

• Angel –  O:-)

• Heart – <-3

In addition we want to say that even such a little amount of emoticons for the Facebook Chat still can give you a chance to express your emotions in a funny way without typing in words what exactly do you feel. Communicate and learn more smiley codes to make chatting on Facebook even more interesting.

Lots of , especially the youth, sometimes forget that this social network was initially created not for playing games or sending to each other pokes and chatting about some casual routine but foremost to let you a chance meet new people. According to the statistics, surf on their pages to communicate with their real life friends, relatives and colleagues or to promote their business. They should not forget that also gives lots of options to meet new people having the same interests as you do and those users who can become your date partners.

Luckily, there are also plenty of Facebook users who think in a different way and that is why create special Facebook sex and dating applications to make soulmates meet and date by means of Facebook.

Below you will find the list of the most popular and widespread Facebook sex and dating application with many registered users in their databases among who everyone can find someone to date or at least to chat:

1) “Would You Sleep With Me?” Facebook sex app. The title says it all. By means of this application you can find a Facebook sex partner or just flirt with a guy or a girl after choosing him/her as your possible Facebook sex partner. You can find real sex partners via this app because you can flirt with people who live nearby or in the same town as you do. Besides you will be offered to flirt as an anonym or using your public name.

2) “Meet New People” dating app. This is kind of the same application but you just say that you like or do not like a certain user according to his/her photo. You can also find people to flirt who live in your own town and if you like someone you can immediately add him/her as your new friend. In spite of the fact you can’t send to each other gifts as in the previous app you still can find more people to flirt.

3) “Compare Hotness” sex app. You will be offered to compare who is hotter and choose between two real people photos of men or women according to your sex preferences. This is a great sex application but you can’t choose to flirt with people who live nearby. This application also doesn’t allow you to see whom you flirted earlier and sent messages to.

4) “Online People” dating app. This is very easy dating application letting you find people who are online at the moment and send them your invitations to become your friends. You can also send someone a gift for a certain fee and wait for respond. The bad thing is that you can’t flirt with these people.

The following Facebook sex and dating application can be added specifically on your own page and you will control all processes happening over there. The previous apps were based on huge databases of Facebook users who signed up on them:

5) Zoosk App. This application is extremely popular and has lots of people all over the world who joined its community and take part in it searching for date partners. You can narrow the circle of all Zoosk people to those who live in your country or region. After finding a certain person you can flirt with him/her and send messages to one another.

6) “Are You Interested?” App. And again you will be offered to flirt and flirt with total strangers and answer only one question “Are you interested?” You can send to other members messages, paid gifts and add them as your friends if you get along with each other.

7) “SpeedDate” App. This app even offers to its members a paid webcam or radio chatting. The rules are quite obvious – you meet lots of strangers and then can e-mail or call them if your first impression about each other was good enough.

Social networks are enormous resources with lots of registered users and organizations and Facebook is one of the hugest social sites nowadays having more than 500 millions account owners. That is why if you want to find someone from your real life on you will have to use “Search System” and waste your time in vain browsing among the numerous results if you don’t know how to use Search options effectively.

When you signed up for the first time you was probably offered the so-called Facebook’s Friend Suggestions defining your possible friends from school, colleagues or relatives basing on your personal info you have pointed out when registered your account. However this suggestion list can’t know all your friends and people who you know very well. That is why you need to figure out how you can find your friends using standard Facebook People Search option in the most effective way.

1) Search for your friends with FriendFinder collection of search tools and filters. You can use this option of Facebook People Search system and find your pals on this resource after clicking on the link of the “Connect With Friends“widget located on the right side of the home page. Use such options of Facebook People Search and FreindFinder tool as:

• Find your buddies via their e-mails from your e-mail address book option. If you know e-mail of your friend and if it is supported by public mail services like Gmail or Yahoo!Mail then you can find your mate in an easy way.

• Search for your former or present classmates. Point your school and year of graduation if you are looking for former classmates and this tool will help you to find them quickly.

• Search for your colleagues. Pretty much the same option as the previous one, only you should point out the name of the organization where you work.

• Search for people using IM networks. If you want to make your Facebook People Search more effective enter your data of IM (instant messaging) networks as SKYPE, ICQ, AOL and other popular IMN.

2) Use Advanced Search App to improve your Facebook People Search navigation. Install it on your page using simple tips by choosing “Advanced Search” app link located at the bottom of your profile page and use the following options of it:

• Search for people according to the Find Friends Tab options. This tab offers the following options for a search as by age, by gender, by relationship status and even by a star sign if you believe in astrological forecasts. Besides you are able to search for those people who were born on the same day as you did. And you may also select such filter as Country to find all these people specifically in your country.

• Search for people who have the same interests as you do. For instance, if you want to find people who share your political points of view or some religious preferences you should use such filters as Politician or Religious. By the way you can limit your search within a certain Fan Group. Other filters you can use to search for people are by Company/Product or by Artist/Celebrity/Literature preferences.

Remember that persistence and usage of available apps can make your People Search on Facebook as easy and effective as it can be.

All huge social communities can offer to you a number of settings and options to make browsing on them as easy and interesting as it is possible. Someone may say that the main aim of such is communication and will be right, while the others can argue and say that customization and personalization of your page or blog is also very important due to many reasons, and also will have a point.

Theoretically is that can offer to its users a great amount of tools for of their pages and at the same time a diversity of various applications and options to make the process of communication with their friends interesting and captivating.

In practice even the best and the most well-known social networks as MySpace, and Twitter can’t offer to you a whole set and sometimes you have to choose between apps for communication and customizing tools for improving your page. For example, MySpace can’t boast such a great amount of diverse apps as Facebook has and Facebook in its turn can’t offer to its users so many ways and tools for customizing their pages. In fact this main difference between two giants of social networking made them constant rivals that fight for attention of new users that can’t select what social network to choose.

However, according to the latest news, Facebook users from now can change their layouts using a certain plug-in and these Facebook layouts can turn their pages into personalized and interesting blogs leaving far behind the memories about standard Facebook layouts all members had to use.

From now account owners can use tons of free and premade Facebook layouts using one plug-in called Yontoo Layers. This new and kind of revolutionary technology has its official site where all Facebook users can try it for free and change the standard Facebook layouts in an easy way by fulfilling three main steps of a step-by-step instruction. Lots of satisfied members have already used these free Facebook layouts and are extremely happy because this plug-in lets them make their personal pages unique and original.

Just imagine what options you can get using different Facebook layouts. You can make your fan pages even more attractive and emphasizing your hobby or occupation and this can give you lots of advantages and benefits if you promote your business by means of Facebook.

Using this innovative plug-in you can express your creativity in the same way you can do it on MySpace and turn your personal page into an individual web page where you can contact with new buddies and be in touch with the old pals, can spice up your profile and make it stand out among millions of others.

At this site you can browse and choose Facebook layouts divided in many categories like emo, love, glamour, cartoons, movies, celebrities, college stuff and many-many different. Select a layout you like and following an easy step-by-step guide install it on your Facebook page.

Besides numerous premade layouts this plug-in (its option PageRage to be precise) can help you to create your own layouts letting you customize your own backgrounds, color scheme and fonts.

In such way you can make your constant usage of Facebook even more pleasant and interesting.

You are probably aware that Facebook being one of the most visited social network can offer to its account owners an enormous diversity of different activities, applications and options letting them have a very good time and contact heir friends in lots of various ways. After the every user can visit his pals’ fan pages or create his own fan page. In spite of the popularity of this resource not all members, especially newbies, are aware how to do this.

Creation of your own fan page usually doesn’t take too much time. All you must do is to follow simple step-by-step guide after .

If you don’t own a registered you should sign up because more than 300 millions and an endless amount of possibilities wait for you to . Especially you have to use Facebopok if you are very interested in free advertising and promotion of your business or occupation. In this case a wisely built and popular fan page representing your business can assist you in achieving the popularity of your occupation. No matter what kind of business you are planning to promote –some firm or company, your homemade occupation that brings you money or your own musical band, a good fan page can bring you only benefits.

A step-by-step guide of building a fan page on Facebook:

1) As it was already mentioned to create a fan page you should or register a new account filling a special form on the Home Page of Facebook. After login Facebook profile, you should search for any already made fan page and visit it.

2) At the end of such fan page (looks like a column on the left side) you can easily find a link called “Create a Page for My Business”. Click on it.

3) You will be offered to choose a sort of business of occupation you are planning to advertise. Think and choose carefully because if a niche of your business was chosen in the most appropriate way then it can help the others to find your fan page easily.

4) To choose the basic features of your fan page, you should push the link “Edit the Page” and scroll down it till you will see the section responsible for publishing contact information about your business. You will see an image (looks like a pencil) with a link “edit”. Push it and feel free to fill in empty blanks denoting a website of your business, a physical address and its working hours.

5) After this you should choose a picture or logo of your company or brand and add it to fill in an empty space of a profile image of your page.

6) Use different applications to describe your business and yourself. Facebook can offer to you a huge quantity of applications. Select those that can emphasize your occupation. If you own a travel company choose among applications that can assist people to decide where they should spend a vacation. If you work in a tech company, add an application telling about the latest news in this sphere and so on. Be creative and add the apps everyone uses and likes – for instance, “You Tube Box”. You can find partners and place links of their fan pages using a special app called “Favorite Pages” and they can place your fan page in the same way. To conclude, try to make your fan page as interesting and attractive as you can.

7) Some fan pages inform about all updates which happen to them by sending notifications about these updates to all friends of a certain fan page. It can promote your business a lot but some users find such reminding rather annoying, so if you want to alter this option you should customize your publish settings. For instance, you can select it unable to send messages to all friends of your fan page if you install a new app, but can inform them by means of other publish settings about an upcoming event dealing with your business.

8 ) Do not forget to add photos of yourself, your workplace or a company where your work, your co-workers and colleagues. Some users only place photos of products they sale or services they offer. It is not bad but do not limit your fan page’s photo albums only by these photos. Let people know more about your life at work place and about your friends at work.

9) After choosing all these options you can “publish” your fan page by pushing button with such title located at the beginning of your fan page. Then you can suggest to all your friends to visit your new fan page.

Fan pages can really help you in promoting your occupation or business, so try to make them more personal and user-friendly using the above step-by-step guide.